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Stijidkiintg put in (long hours in; essays and so forth. The avenge wide!!! in Human Wand mummy“: In I 52-hour week, the Henge mathematics student Works " hours I week and the nvence terrlti1y buy. "Some students get married and take on additional ottliga- tions," Dr. Zuzanek says. “These "have an impact. But marks dtm't drop off. Perhaps married stu- dents learn to organize them- selves better." Giaiik 'ratertoo/trueutty of iGirs, or Jose to m houi-s I day, seven days I wtsek., " - series of studies done by UW students and graduate students tinder the direction of Drs. Jiri Zuzanek and David Ng, depart- ment of recreation. The studies began in the fall of 1977 and continued in 1979 and woo. "These studies were carefully done," Dr. Zuzauek reports. "A total of 270 students were sur- veyed. They were asked to keep time budgets - records as to what they did with their time every 10 minutes throughout an entire day. We secured time budgets covering a total of 810 student days or three complete days for each student sur- veyed." The studies were begun by Steve Shane, who has since been graduated. More recently, Steve James, a graduate student,. and Peter Schaefer, Cheryl Ross and Wendy McNutt, undergrads. have been involved. The studies show university students put in hours far in excess of the 35 and 40-hour weeks that are standard in busi- ness and industry. But they still manage to find considerable time - between 32 and 34 hours a week - for leisure activities such as playing sports, watching TV, listening to records, partying and so forth. This is relatively easy for the students who live in university residences because they spend little or no time on such things as grocery shopping, cooking, wash- my dishes or eieaning.,Sttadtmts who room in the community, or rent apartments or town houses, may spend much more time on such housekeeping functions. "We found university students are by and large pretty hard working," says Dr. Zuzanek, who would like to see these studies go on. "But they don’t work as consistently as office or factory workers. You may see a student go a whole day, on occasion, without working very much. Next day though. he or she’ will pile up an enormous number of hours. But it averages out to a fairly still work load." - - -iite uw researchers found We doesn't _ to be much mutter-aid. ttttKe-ee ttqt-gt In]. and 'tyouth-ttei-tqt-ltr mm; "gutisasnap,emtstturttte omsee-srmlrtwimtttmtirthat 'her-ing: the avenue ttmt or -esrtrtutreateteettotmdtea." mood-year student tn the Uni- In: Dr. 2m. “and this "'Neeomamktitmtuttot 'err-tttdr-et-mites." Says Dr. 2m. “and this tre/e-stout-Nettie-t ,rnehometttturaweharroeethnn MWWs.uoweV/- erwt-attyetitinto9esirtttird and fourth you-I. the pom eh-atdmaies-tftatso little more time working than do determinejust herbalist-dents work end how much leisure time they have, the researchers looked at a number of other areas. For example, it was shown the five leisure activities that seem to occupy most of the students' free time are: (l) watching TV (about eight hours a week, or from 20 to 25 per cent of total free time); (2) conversations with friends (one hour per day); (3) participation in active sports and physical exercise (hall an hour a day); (4) partying and going out to pubs (half " hour a day), and (5) simple resting. . HKLS students seem to be more heavily engaged in active sports and partying, engineering students are the most active in university clubs, societies and interest grows. arts students outdo others in reading and conversation and math students spend more time in unspecified "ttee" ways. "Certain things about the sur- vey may raise various .twes- tions," comments Dr. Zuzanek. "For instance, the amount of time students spend reading books for pleasure is rather small - only 48 minutes a week. More- over, if it weren't for the arty students, the average would only" be about 25 minutes a week. This is far less than the amount of time they spend at cards or other table games which totals 40 minutes a week." "We had a number of other questions that are somewhat apart from the main thrust ofthe survey," says Dr. Zuuaek. "For instance, we asked what subjects the students were least well prepared in prior to coming to university. They listed in the following order. English. anthe- matics, physics and chemistry and other thiatgs." They asked ancients living of! campus if they would walk to and from campus alone in the eve- ning (after dark). Fifty per cent of the female respondents said they would hesitate to do so, fearing fur their safety. Twenty five per cent of the males also said they would hesitate to do heard of any other may of this nature among Canadian univer- sity students. He has heard of some in the United States but finds they have been done in such a way that the results cannot be easily compared. Hesaystutwttiie_rtetytnrr Region looking into fluoride-free water By Ruth JaHqtme A study is being made of the feasibility of establishing a fluoride-free source of water for Waterloo residents and the matter is expected to go before regional council by September. accord- ing to regional chairman Jim Gray. The chairman said in an interview yesterday regional officials are looking into the idea following " formal request" from members of the Waterloo Safe Water Society. The society spearheaded a petition to force flouridation to a civic vote in a June a plebiscite but lost its bid to have fluoridation stopped-in the city by a narrow margin. Jim Colley, president of the society, said he's .since discussed with Gray the possibility of having a fhtoride-free source of water for those who want to travel with containers No a designated location and fill up. Me said Gray “was very nice about it (the request) and is seriously looking at it." . The regional chairman said after the study is completed, recommendations will be made to the region's engineering committee which should put its rertorttttfore pouncll‘ll Segtemlqer. _ . Beuidttteaigrtotttteiri'krmaiattattyisto detesrminettteeostasdpotenttiai1otatiomfor such a ”new. 'qt'toride-tatthemo-C"hesaid, but noting that .heeoverafhaorfdeteetapu located ittsaftotteproteetedrretttefl-utrorhrter andptaeedhtside0-edttert C h, "'NeatmrtaNtet-taaadtre-eeeyrmMtie 'e_sTEetLo05p0rt9ff..tS, v s mum: at the Gmnhmok pumping station (in Kitchen- er)," he said. But Gray conceded this might not satisfy those Waterloo residents who don't want to travel outside the city to obtain nmrt1uoridated water. . Culley indicated setting up a maoride-ftee source of water would be a relief to more than a handful of city reshlqnts. - - _ - _ He said theft would be at least several hundred people who would probably take advantage of the Using his own family " an example, be said he and his wife and four children go through about 14 to " gallons of spring water a week. used for drinking and cooking. And, at his health food store on Bridgeport Rd. in the Towers plaza, he sells almost 400 gallons about every ten days. . "Most of them are doing it (buying their water) to avoid the tltstteide," he said. As well, Colley said people will obtain water iron various sources and friends in Kitchener, or travel to outlying areas of the city for spring water from above-ground taps. Some city residents have complained in the not to the Chronicle that they or their children ve adverae reactions to consumption at fluori- dated water. _ he Canadian Dental Association. on the other hand. claims than}: no possibility of allergy or intolerance to water t1qaridated at the recon-